From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 29 7:25:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.intop.net (smtp.intop.net [206.156.254.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 967C337B422 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 07:25:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from charlie (iwkcpe.intop.net [208.149.79.30]) by smtp.intop.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA02050; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 09:26:59 -0500 Message-Id: <200009291426.JAA02050@smtp.intop.net> From: "Charlie Schloemer" To: Enrico Donelli , David Raistrick Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 09:27:16 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: dual boot with win2000 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <5.0.0.25.1.20000928100833.02f019c0@mbox.logicom.it> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12a) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 28 Sep 00, at 17:46, David Raistrick wrote: > On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Enrico Donelli wrote: > > > I work with a machine with win 2000 server, and i would like to install > > freeBSD on a partition. > > is there a document where to find information about dual boot using the nt > > loader? > > I dual boot my laptop with 4.1-S and y2k. er. win2k. (only because work > requires it! really!) > > I installed Free first, left the first partition for dos, then installed > win2k. > > After getting win2k up and running, i went back to the Free install disks, > and reinstalled the freebsd MBR and manager. > > Works fine. > > later...david Also, Win2K will always put its boot loader on its own partition, though it will overwrite the MBR with a standard MBR. I've never had a problem installing FBSD's boot loader on the MBR after Win2K installation. However, the original question was, "Where can I get info. about making the NT boot manager load FBSD?" You'd be making an entry in C:\boot.ini, or whatever your system drive is, though it's not for the faint of heart; the file is unnecessarily cryptic with its ARC paths. Also, if you scrag this file such that Windows can't read it, you'll likely be reinstalling your system. (Make a backup before you start, and have a boot floppy handy.) The FreeBSD boot loader is much easier, and seems to make intelligent guesses about how to boot an unknown partition. It requires no configuration for Windows 2000. Good luck, -charlie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message